Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Tables; Chapter 1 Introduction; Flattening Times and Tectonic Politics; Notes on the Research Topic; Liberal Democracy Reconsidered; Technocracy and Educational Statehood; Contents of the Study; Chapter 2 Civic Education and Liberal Democracy; Liberalism and Normativity; Civic Education and Mechanistic Statehood; The Arrested Logic of Educational Scholarship; A Critical Theory of Public Normative Education; The Logic of Civic Competence; Concluding Remarks; Chapter 3 Cultural Pluralism and Social Cohesion; Social Cohesion and State Identity

Relations of Statehood and CultureArticulating Civic Education Universally; The Diachronic Nature of Civic and Citizenship Education; Concluding Remarks; Chapter 4 Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism, and Interculturality; Main Concepts Driving Normative Schooling; Analysing Civic and Religious Education; Parochialism ↔ Cosmopolitanism; Civic-Religious Educational Negotiation in Seven Cases; Making Sense of Tolerance, Education, and Nation-Making Out of Values; Concluding Remarks; Chapter 5 Tolerance and Neutrality in Civic and Religious Education

Two Theses on Ideological Neutrality and Cultural ConditionalisationConfessional Neutrality; Cultural Neutrality and Political Power; Civic Neutrality and the Triadic Logic of the Subject; Concluding Remarks; Chapter 6 Educating Europeans for the Good Life; Identities of Cork and Lead; Methodology and the European Good Life; Citizenship; Religiosity; Activism; Orders of Normativity, Civic Education, and the European Good Life; The European Civic Prospect Package; Concluding Remarks; Chapter 7 Revisiting Civic Education and Liberal Democracy; Civic Education and Cultural Tectonics, Again

Revisiting Political Universalism, Clean Slates, and Post-normativityA Final Assessment of Culture, Ideology, and Educational Statehood; Afterword; References; Index